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Summary: Using simple text, maps, and dramatic photographs, this book introduces readers to Mars, relying on the latest scientific findings from NASA and other space agencies. Features include Mars' physical measurements, its geology, atmosphere, gravity, orbit, and climate. Also covered are geographical wonders such as Valles Marineris (the largest canyon in the solar system) and Olympus Mons (the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo & Daughters 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 523.43 HAMSummary: Earth is an incredible, exceptional planet with an amazing life story full of cataclysmic disasters, eleventh-hour coincidences that save it from extinction, and an astonishing power to continually regenerate. Uses breathtaking footage and special imaging to tell the story of the great forces that shape the planet - volcanoes, the ocean, the atmosphere and ice. Traveling from Ethiopia's unique...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BBC Worldwide Americas 2008
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EARCarson, Rachel
Summary: Rachel Carson once wrote, "It is not half so important to know as to feel." What do we know about clouds? There are three basic types: stratus, cumulus, and cirrus. Some are fleecy and fair-weathered while others portend storms. But clouds are more than pretty or ominous backdrops. They're the vehicle of water between sea and land, land and sea, in a cycle without end or beginning. They are the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.5 CARSummary: Bill Nye The Science Guy talks about the atmosphere, its five different levels, and how it protects the Earth. Bill also soars into the heavy topic of atmospheric air pressure and radio waves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILHyde, Natalie
Summary: "Climate change is one of the most serious threats to the world's oceans causing ecosystem damage, coastal erosion, and ocean acidification. This necessary title explores these effects and the worldwide efforts to reduce them. From youth leaders to global organizations, learn how people work together to protect the oceans from the effects of climate change - and get motivated to take action in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Publishing Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.5 HYDLondon, Martha
Summary: Explore the atmosphere's layers from the troposphere in which we live to the exosphere in the vacuum of space. Learn how the atmosphere supports life, how scientists study the different layers, and how the atmosphere protects Earth. Additional features include a diagram labeling each of the layers, Fast Facts, a phonetic glossary, an index, an introduction to the author, and further sources for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2020
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.51 LONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J551.51 LONMcAnulty, Stacy
Summary: "Dude, I am Ocean. You know my many names: Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Indian, Southern. It's all excellent me. My salt water flows across the planet as one. I have no flag. No nationality. My waves are for all. Life on Earth began in my epic waters I keep the global climate just right. And I have rad secrets. But I'm facing a major wipeout! Only by working together can we get back in the zone....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577.7 MCAWoolf, Alex
Summary: A graphic nonfiction volume that discusses the Earth's atmosphere and weather. It also talks about what can be done to help our planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.5 WOOGuillain, Charlotte
Summary: A book made up of one long page explores what goes on above the Earth, from high rise buildings up to the Kuiper Belt on the outer edges of the Solar System.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Words & Pictures, part of the Quarto Group 2018
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Summary: "The fascinating science and history of the air we breathe: It's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell. In Caesar's Last Breath, ... bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around the globe, and across time to tell the story of the air we breathe, which, it turns out, is also the story of earth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 551.51 KEASummary: This program presented by Sir David Attenborough discusses the thickening of Earth's carbon dioxide envelope and, using climate modeling, confirms that fossil fuels are primarily responsible for a global rise in temperatures going far beyond any normal allowance for cyclical fluctuation. Traveling from the Arctic, where the ecosystem is collapsing; to the low-lying islands of the South Pacific,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: To most people, air pollution is a global issue. But what about the air we breathe every day-on the street, at work, and in our homes? This program studies fine particle air pollution and its public health hazards. Using detailed graphics that magnify a compound 100,000 times, the video explains the concept of fine particles and their ability to penetrate and disable cells-clearly illustrating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Access to affordable, sustainable energy supplies is a growing concern around the world. This program looks at successful enterprises that are providing some renewable energy solutions. In Scotland, small-scale turbines put wind power within the reach of domestic users. In Sweden, the world's first train to be run solely on biogas has been developed. In Nepal, biogas stoves are improving the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Through the ages, man has depended on plants for everything from oxygen to food to building supplies. Gives a colorful tour of the world's most dazzling flora - from the most magical to the most bizarre. Watch buds burst, flowers bloom, and discover the myriad ways plants struggle to survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV EYESummary: A life-sustaining envelope of gas surrounds the earth. This atmosphere contains oxygen, CO2, water vapor, and other gases-it is what generates climate, which affects all living beings. This program analyzes the sun's gradual brightening and the relationship between sunlight and CO2, explains why the atmospheres of Mars and Venus cannot sustain life, theorizes about the disappearance of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Much of what is known about the environmental disaster in Libby, Montana, has been due to the unflagging efforts of residents Les Skramstad, U.S. attorney for Montana, and Gayla Benefield. In this ABC News program, these determined individuals are joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Andrew Schneider; Drs. Brad Black and Alan Whitehouse, of Libby's Center for Asbestos-Related...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This collection of 34 visually stunning video clips explores the environment and facets of physics. Properties of rain, ice, snow, oil, trees, volcanoes, and salt are examined, as are aspects of quantum physics, light phenomena, hydrodynamics, thermodynamics, Newton's Laws, and electricity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: For most of a century, industrial and automotive smoke were equated with progress and prosperity. But the cost in human health has been devastatingly high, particularly in developing countries. In this program, Devra Davis, author of When Smoke Ran Like Water; Peter Brimblecombe, executive editor of Atmospheric Environment; and others use examples such as smog-related deaths in Donora,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program demonstrates how wind turbines, solar cells, hybrid automobiles, and coal gasification plants are beginning to transform the way the world is powered. The U.S. Secretary of Energy, the director of the National Wind Technology Center, the CEO of Enron Wind Corporation, representatives of Worldwatch Institute and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and others discuss the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: People everywhere are interested in the weather, but how does it all work? Beginning with Earth's atmosphere-its evolution, its gaseous composition, and its four regions-this video takes a close look at how conditions combine to create climate and weather. Topics include the Koppen Climate Classification System; weather prediction; types of clouds and precipitation; thunderstorms, tornadoes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: By building roads, watering crops, and grazing cattle, we are constantly changing the climate. We may also modify the weather by cloud seeding, though there is no scientifically accepted proof that rain or snow would not have occurred naturally in cases where seeding appears to have been successful. This program shows how migration in the Sahel has altered regional climate; examines the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: They are now banned worldwide-but the toxins known as PCBs are not going away. This program explains how the compounds have almost irreparably polluted the globe and still threaten future generations. The film begins in 1927, when PCBs became integral to electric power and, eventually, a vast array of agricultural and technological products. Describing the growth of scientific awareness of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Did the great flood, as described in the Book of Genesis, really happen? In this program, scientists travel to Switzerland, Barbados, Greenland, and South Africa to decipher the clues left by history. These include erratic boulders and terminal moraines, coral terracing, microscopic fossils in core samples from the ocean floor, and tiny pockets of carbon dioxide in glacial ice samples. Evidence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This alarming program investigates the likelihood of the biggest climate change in more than 10,000 years. Scientist Richard Alley asserts that global warming contributes to record amounts of cold freshwater from glaciers and the Greenland ice sheet being pushed into the North Atlantic, threatening to shut down the Gulf Stream that keeps northern Europe and the U.S. warm and wet. Within a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006